Oscar Wilde Quotes About Risk

• When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Husband, Women

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 15 (1891)

• Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Errors, Risk

• To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

  Oscar Wilde

  Single Mom, Risk, Weakness

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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